In
the late 80s and early 90s a few manufacturers tried to turn out
Sky dishes as cheaply as Amstrad. The results were generally pretty
dire. This example had a strange fixing bracket that had very
little resistance to upward or downward pressure. The two arms
of the bracket formed a marvellously supple trapezoid that would
flex up and down if anything bigger than a humming bird landed
on the dish. The dish would bounce up and down alarmingly, but
strangely the alignment wasnt affected and the couch potato
in the lounge would be totally unaware. The cable fixing on this
example could be described, like my dress sense, as casual
bordering on the slovenly.